by George Jean Smith

Created on: January 16, 2009   Last Updated: January 18, 2009

Housework was once considered a job of the times for most women. Today, if you're a woman in the work force, housework has little meaning and gets very little recognition. There was a time before world war two when women orchestrated their every waking moment throughout the day getting things done, much like a conductor would his orchastra. I remember when mother had specific days that things were done. Monday was washing and ironing, Tuesday was the day to dust furniture and polish silver, Wedsday meant mounds of sewing, Thursday called for window washing, and then there was Friday, a day on which she would change bed linnen and allow herself just enough time to wash and curl her hair among all the other stuff that needed caught up. Wow, that seems like an endless circus of chores done throughout the week. Chores that are now mastered in a single day...well, at least a few hours!

Meal preperation was a top priority that co-exisited with the usual daily routine of housework back then. Making a five course meal was done with ease, always from scratch, really delicious and always on time! If only the folks during the pre-fourties era had the luxeries that we do today women would, without a doubt, have excelled the male dominate professional occupational force that we compete in today. Women are born and bred to naturally hold the highest degree one can earn for communications, blue collar labor engeneering, family management, professor of literary and the arts, and have always held a PHD as well. Men... well, back then most blue collor working men knew that work awaited them from 6am until 3pm- Monday through Friday. Weekends were only worked by those who started a family way too early in life. Men typically dreaded the weekends when there was snow to shovel, grass to be mowed or a clothsline to repair. Now, my intent here isn't to male bash by no means. But lets review the facts. A man (back then) happily crawled out of bed early morning like a stud rooster, though some were reluctant to face another hard work day. But, non the less, they were treated like kings as they were served a breakfast that was suited for one! As for the housewife, well... by the time she was ready to eat that lovely breakfast she was already too tired to enjoy it because her day had started nearly 3 hours before her Cock-a-doo even seen the sunrise. Later that day, the man of the house came home just in time for a good hot cooked meal... and his woman always who looked just as hot! That

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